Retouching is an essential part of Photoshop, for the beginner who wants to be in photoshop is very important to learn is even a graphic designer though perhaps not too excessive. So this article would like to bring you some of the best tutorials for retouching, most of them are step-by-step tutorial, which is so comprehensive with satisfactory results.

Say Happy New Year in your own special way! Using Photoshop Elements 2.0, you can make a unique greeting for your family, friends, and professional associates. This tutorial shows you how to create the background for your card, and how to add text and a photograph.

1. Create a new document.

Choose File > New. In the New dialog box, create a new document that is an appropriate size for a card. We used the typical Japanese postcard size, 100 mm wide, 148 mm high, with a resolution of 300 pixels per inch. Enter a name and click OK

2. Create the background.

Use the painting tools to create your background. We created our background by using the gradient tool and the paintbrush. In the swatches palette, select a color for the foreground and white for the background. Drag down in your document with the gradient tool.

3. Create the fuzzy snowﬂakes.

In the Swatches palette, choose white for the foreground color. Choose Layer > New >Layer, change the layer opacity to 50%, and click OK.

Select the brush tool. In the brush picker in the option bar, choose a soft edge brush between 100 to 300 pixels. Click everywhere you want snow ﬂakes to appear.

In the Swatches palette, choose white for the foreground color. Choose Layer > New >Layer, change the layer opacity to 50%, and click OK.

4. Add a custom shape

Select the custom shape tool in the toolbar. In the options bar, open the shape picker and then choose a character. We choose the sheep character (character 8). Draw the shape in your document. Select Shape 1 in the Layers palette and adjust the opacity for the effect you want.

5. Add your greeting text

Select a new foreground color then select the vertical or horizontal type tool and type your text. In the options bar, set the weight and size of your text.

6. Add a photo

Open the Photo you want to use then drag it from the layers palette to your card. Choose Image > Transform > Free Transform and then resize or rotate the image as necessary. Use the move tool to move the photo to the correct location in your card.

7. Soften the edges of the photo.

Select the eraser tool and choose a soft-edge brush from the brush picker in the option bar. Drag it around the image to soften the edges and help the image blend in with the background

8. Save your greeting card

You can save your card to print it, or to email it or post it to your Web site. To save for print, choose File > Save and print according to your printer instructions. If you want a different format, choose File > Save As.

Quick Mask Mode is a widely used image background removal technique in Adobe Photoshop software ever used in corporate graphic design platform. This image editing tool can answers to most complex graphic designing endeavor. The selection tool of Quick Mask Mode available in Adobe Photoshop can do all possible complex image editing job. It can mask a desired portion of a digital image. It is mostly used for minute and accurate selections. It is a better choice compared to the Magic Lasso Tool.

Adobe Photoshop is in fact the sole software that plays a vital role in the corporate graphic design platform. Photoshop is a wonder image editing tool and answers to most complex graphic designing endeavor. Adobe Photoshop has gained much popularity and precedence in graphic design service worldwide for its user friendliness showing endless possibilities in manipulating any form of digital image.Quick Mask Mode is one of the widely used selection tools available in Adobe Photoshop chosen to do complex image editing job. Quick Mask tool is used to mask a desired portion of a digital image. It is mostly used for minute and accurate selections. According to expert graphic designers, Quick Mask Tool is considered as a better choice compared to the Magic Lasso Tool.How Quick Mask tool operates? Open your photo in Adobe Photoshop and click on the Quick Mask button in the toolbar for working with it. Don't forget to ensure that your paint color is set to black. When you start to paint on your photo, you will see red strokes. This is your quick mask. Clicking Quick Mask button, you will notice the red area is encircled by marching ants like feature. When you need to edit your selection, just click Quick Mask button the second time and start to erase or edit the desired portion of the image.You will get a variety of options in Quick Mask Mode which completely fits into the requirements of any graphic designer. You can use Paint brush with hard edge as well as brushes of all size available here to edit your photo. You will get the freedom to use filter or effect on your selected area. You can drag the selection with move tool on different file. This selection you get is the one without background and can be placed on any desired background. Thus Photoshop Quick Mask Mode facilitates a graphic designer do a lot through its advanced features. The result is simply amazing!

This is a small image manipulation in Photoshop that many people search. Because there is so extraordinary that the effects are created, then this tutorial is on later. This time I will present some photo manipulations that would make you chuckle amazed ..

Foggy Window Effect in Photoshop

After over three days of nonstop rain I decided to use that as inspiration for a new experiment in Photoshop. In 2007 I did a video tutorial showing how to create water drops in Photoshop, but it was only the video without any text instruction, so a lot of people have sent emails asking us to put a text version of the tutorial. I always thought that simply repeating the same tutorial wouldn't be cool so I tried to make a new effect and apply the water drops on it as well.

So in this tutorial I will show you how to create a foggy window effect in Photoshop. We will use a stock photo, brushes, and layer styles to create the effect. The whole process is quite simple and it won't take you more than 30 minutes to achieve the same result.

Step 1

Open Photoshop and create a new document. I'm using 2560x1440 pixels for the document size. After that I filled tha background layer with a dark grey. This part will be necessary to create the water drops.

Step 2

Go to Window>Brushes to create the brush for the water drops. Follow the image below for the settings but it's important to change the shape to an ellipse and also for this first part the brush has to be very soft.

Step 3

Add a new layer and group this layer into a folder. Then change the Blend Mode of the folder to Color Dodge. With the Brush Tool (B) and white for the color, paint with the Brush Tool some drops. As you can see the blurry edges of the little objects sort of melt with one another depending how close they are. That is really important to make the drops more realistic.

Step 4

Select the background layer and the group with the drops and merge them into on layer. After that go to Image>Adjustments>Levels. Change the Black Input to 124 and the White to 161. The values might vary depending on the drops, so just make sure that you get rid of the blurry edges.

Step 5

With the Magic Wand Tool (W) select the black area, then go to Select>Similar to make sure all the black areas get selected. Then delete this area.

Step 6

Import an image to use in our design. The one I'm using is courtesy from Thinkstock and you can find it here. Duplicate this layer because we will use it a few more times with different blur values.

Step 7

Go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur. Use 20 pixels for the Radius.

Step 8

Go to Layer>Layer Styles>Color Overlay. Use a dark grey for the color and change the Opacity to 60%.

Step 9

Now put the water drops in front of the image and let's apply some layer styles to give them the realistic effect we want.

Step 10

Go to Layer>Layer Styles>Blending Options and change the Fill Opacity to 0. After that select Inner Shadow. Use white for the color and LInear Dodge for the Blend Mode, for the Opacity use 50%, for the angle 90º, then for the Distance use 3 pixels and for the Size use 5 pixels. Also change the Contour mode to the Cone one.

Step 11

Select Bevel and Emboss. Change the Depth to 350%, the Direction to Down, the Size to 7 pixels, the Soften to 5 pixels, then over the Shading options use 54º for the Angle and 42º for the Altitude. Also change the Gloss Contour to the Cove Deep one, the for the Highlight Mode use 80% with white and Color Dodge for the Blend Mode, then for the Shadow Mode use Multiply with black and 50% of Opacity.

Step 12

Select Inner Glow then for the Blend Mode use Darken with 40% Oapcity and black for the color. Change the Source to Edge and the Size to 25 pixels.

Step 13

Now select Color Overlay and use (#907f72) for the color with Color Dodge with 45% Opacity.

Step 14

The last layer style option will be Drop Shadow. Use Multiply for the Blend Mode, black for the Color and 20% Opacity. Change the Angle to 90º and use 9 pixels for the Distance, 5% for the Spread and 10 pixels for the Size.

Step 15

Make the photo without blur visible again and go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur. Use 5 pixels this time. Then over the Layer Palette click with the right button of the mouse on the thumb of the water drops layer, then select "Select Pixel" to select just the water drops.

Select the photo that we applied the 5 pixles Gaussian Blur and go to Layer>Layer Mask>Reveal Selection. This way the image with 5 pixels blur will be only visible beneath the water drops.

Step 16

Select the layer mask that we created in the previous step and go to Filter>Blur>Motion Blur. Use -90º for the Angle and 80 pixels for the Distance.

Step 18

After the motion blur, go to Image>Adjustments>Levels. Change the black and white inputs again to get rid of the blurry edges caused by the blur. You will have an effect like the image below as if the water drops were running down on the window.

Step 19

Duplicate the layer with the photo that we applied the Gaussian Blur with 5 pixels for the radius only and delete the layer mask. The with the Horizontal Type Tool (T) add a text with a handwriting font, or if you have a tablet or is really good with the mouse you can write with your own handwriting. Again select just the pixels of the text like we did in the Step 15. Then mask this new photo with the shape of the text, so again the photo will be visible only beneath the text area.

Step 20

Add a new layer and with the Brush Tool (B) and the same brush we created the water drops, add more water drops and especially over the text area like the image below. To apply the same layer style of the water drops, just click with the right button of the mouse over the water drops layer and select Copy Layer Style, then on the new layer with the small water drops click again with the right click of the mouse and select Paste Layer Style.

Step 21

Duplicate the photo again and delete the layer mask, after that go to Layer>Layer Mask>Hide All. Select the thumb of the layer mask and go to Filter>Render>Clouds. Make sure you had black and white for the colors. This will apply a cloud texture to the foggy window effect, that will make it more realistic.

Step 22

Select all layers and duplicate them, after that merge all the duplicated layers into one. You can also use the keyboard shortcut Command+Alt+Shift+E. Then go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur. Use 20 pixels for the Radius.

Step 23

Change the Blend Mode of this blurry layer to Overlay with 40% opacity.

Step 24

Duplicate the previous layer and just change the Blend Mode to Screen, keep the same 40% of Opacity.

Step 25

Add a new layer on top of the others and fill it with a radial gradient using dark grey and light grey for the colors. Also use Multiply for the Blend Mode.

Conclusion

Here is the outcome of the tutorial. As you can see the technique used is pretty simple it was all about Layer Styles, Masks and basic filters. The most important thing was to understand how to recreate the effect using the tools available in Photoshop, in this case I spend hours analyzing a foggy window trying to get the basic characteristics to make the effect realistic. Now it's up to you.

Photo To Color Sketch v6.97 Portable

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It's easy to make sketch from photo. Convert your photo into color sketch, pen-and-ink, black and white sketch. Now, your photo become fine line art, even indistinguishable from an artist work. Creation of artistic looking hand-drawings derived from photos. The usage is very easy. Great practical function: It's easy to make color sketch for photo. It also convert your photo to Oil Painting. You can adjust the hue, saturation, lighting, exposure for the photo, and also make artistic picture, such as realism, pop art, abstract. Certainly, it also can make black and white sketch for photos. The usage is very easy. Professional functions for photo sketch or color sketch, More specially, More powerfully! What's New? You can convert your photos in batches. Operation is differentiated by standard grade and professional grade.

ColorImpact 4.0.3.334 Portable

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With ColorImpact you can create beautiful color schemes at the click of a button. Experience the fun! No more guesswork when you pick colors for your next design project. With a single click you can create color combinations with impact. Creating a color scheme is easy and fun Just select the main color, and the visual color wheel instantly displays a selection of perfectly matching colors. You can then try different color harmonies, add shades and tints and fine tune your color scheme to perfection.

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